GENERATIONS
WHEN ASKED IF HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT HIS PLACE IN HISTORY WINSTON CHURCHILL REPLIED NO SINCE HE PROPOSED TO “WRITE IT MYSELF.” YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN HISTORY (TO PARAPHRASE TROTSKY) BUT HISTORY IS INTERESTED IN YOU. GENERATIONS ARE THE THROUGH-LINE. IT’S YOUR HISTORY. HELP WRITE IT.
CHUCK BERRY “JOHNNY B GOODE” 1958
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“STAND BY ME” 1960
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JETHRO TULL “THICK AS A BRICK” 1969
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THE BEATLES “MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR” 1968
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THE WHO “I CAN SEE FOR MILES” 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Uyj4NIyDU&feature=youtube_gdata_player As we smoke, Robin tells us of London clubs, of the Marquee in Soho, the Roundhouse in North London. Robin seems intrigued by this brother-and-sister act that just appeared in a clothes shop in London seeking hash. I ask him if he knows of any new groups I should hear. He answers “The Who.” […]
“IF YOU’RE GOING TO SAN FRANCISCO” 1967
In San Francisco hippies are everywhere. More are coming. The announcement of the “Summer of Love” frightens an already nervous City Hall. (Interestingly, the summer of 1967 was called the Summer of Love before it happened.) Over the airwaves Scott McKenzie sang, “If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in […]
THE BEATLES “BABY YOU’RE A RICH MAN” 1965
In our Age of Promise, The Beatles sang, “Baby, you’re a rich man.” Now The Beatles were extending us a hand, promising everyone a chance to turn their dreams into reality, into money, making everyone truly rich, as if by magic. And who were the ultimate magicians? Why, The Beatles, of course. None of this […]
JOAN BAEZ “DIAMONDS AND RUST” 1975
To quote Joan Baez’s wonderful line from Diamonds and Rust about her time with Bob Dylan in the early 60s (“Speaking strictly for me / We both could have died then and there”), speaking strictly for myself, it was as if all of music (as “music” then meant to us, the explosion of talent, and […]
THE BEATLES “A DAY IN THE LIFE” 1967
That same summer, The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.. On the cover they are dressed in bright satin costumes holding musical instruments; they’re surrounded (in collage) by Marilyn Monroe, Karl Marx, Jayne Mansfield, Marlon Brando, and a host of others, placing themselves among, and in the center of, the major cultural influences […]
THE BEATLES “PENNY LANE” 1967
Pictures of The Beatles at the time show them as having changed once again. No longer are they the four jolly moptops. Now all have mustaches. John appears with his distinctive glasses. Film of them at the time shows them walking down a Liverpool street following the release of “Penny Lane.” They move […]
